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Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB

By : Bo Borland
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Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB

By: Bo Borland

Overview of this book

<p>Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB will teach you MongoDB and Pentaho integration points and developer skills needed to create turnkey analytic solutions that deliver insight and drive value for your organization.<br /><br />Starting with how to install, configure, and develop content in both Pentaho and MongoDB, this book will give you the complete range of skills needed to gain insight into MongoDB data using Pentaho Business Analytics.&nbsp; You will learn about MongoDB data models and query techniques, which are covered in combination with the provided sample MongoDB database. You then advance to data integration, analysis, and reporting using Pentaho.<br /><br />You will learn how to use Pentaho Data Integration to blend and enrich data from additional sources. From this blended data, you will develop professional-looking reports and analysis views that are visual and interactive. Lastly, we will cover the Pentaho web portal and web interfaces for deploying analytics out to a broader set of consumer users.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Visualizing your data with charts


Charts are a powerful feature for visualizing data, and PRD provides two types of charts: JFreeChart and sparkline charts. JFreeChart is a Java chart library with support for a wide range of chart types. There are 17 JFreeChart chart types available in PRD.

JFreeChart chart types

The following chart types are included out of the box in PRD.

  • Bar

  • Line

  • Area

  • Pie

  • Multi-Pie

  • Bar Line Combination

  • Ring

  • Bubble

  • Scatter Plot

  • XY Bar

  • XY Line

  • XY Area

  • Extended XY Line Chart

  • Waterfall

  • Radar

  • XY Area Line

Subreports

All charts are query-driven, and the bar and pie charts we develop will each require separate queries; however, the Master Report can only be associated with one query. Subreports are an important PRD feature because each subreport can be tied to a separate data source and query. A PRD report can contain an unlimited number of subreports, giving you the flexibility to design reports that contain multiple data points and visualizations. The clickstream Master Report is already associated...